The Old Man and The Sea
Book cover design (silk screen print)
Book cover design (silk screen print)
The cover design for this 60th anniversary edition of Hemingway’s classic novella reflects the story of Santiago, a Cuban fisherman who, after 84 days of not catching a single fish, comes across a blue marlin bigger then any fish that his village has ever seen. Incidentally, The Old Man and The Sea became Hemingway’s ‘big fish’ after ten years without literary success and played a major role in the writer being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
The graphics were kept to a minimum in accordance with Hemingway’s beautifully simple style of writing dictated by his ‘iceberg theory’: the greatness of the iceberg, according to him, lies within the fact that only 1/8 of it is visible; Hemingway applied this to writing in the belief that the true meaning of a piece of writing should not be evident from the surface story.
The graphics were kept to a minimum in accordance with Hemingway’s beautifully simple style of writing dictated by his ‘iceberg theory’: the greatness of the iceberg, according to him, lies within the fact that only 1/8 of it is visible; Hemingway applied this to writing in the belief that the true meaning of a piece of writing should not be evident from the surface story.
